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B. H. LEWIS.

GUIDE FOR HEEL PLATES.

No. 379,898. Patented Mar. 20, 1888.

.Z'NVENTUHI WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUSSELL H. LEWIS, OF PROVIDENOE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO FRED- ERICK RIOHARDSON, OF SAME PLACE.

GUIDE FOR HEEL-PLATES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 379,898, dated March 20, 1888.

Application filed July 29, 1887. Serial No. 245,579.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Russian. H. LEwIs, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Setting- Guides for Heel-Plates, of which the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to adevice for gaging the location of a heel-plate which is to be attached to the heel.

The objects of my invention are to provide a hand device whereby the position of a heelplate may be easily and accurately located, and in using which the prongs of the plate maybe partly driven in the rubber heel before removing the guide.

To the aforesaid purposes my invention consists in the provision of a holder having means for holding the heel-plate, and provided with guidingmeans whereby the location of the heel-plate may be truly gaged in setting the same, and whereby the plate may be maintained in position to be partly driven in the heel before the setting'guide is removed; and

the invention further consistsin other peculiar features of construction of the device, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved setting-guide, on which is placed a pronged heel'plate, which is represented as being located upon the rubber heel, 5 shown in broken lines. Fig. 2 is an under side plan view of the holder and plate shown in Fig. 1, the prongs of the plate being in crosssection, and the relative position of the heel being indicated in broken lines. Fig. 3 is an under side plan view of another form of the setting-guide, in which the guide projections are merged into a single curved flange. Fig. 4 is a side view of anotherform of my improved device.

In the said drawings like numbers of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

Referring to the drawings, the number 5 designates the holder, which is formed at one extremity with the elevated table 6, in which are constructed the two guide notches or eyes (No model.)

7, disposed in a similar manner. The guide projections or shoulders 9 are formed upon the reverse side of the holder from where the table 6 is raised, and are located at the desired distance from the outer edge of the table. The contact-faces of the guide projections 9 are slightly curved, in order to conform to the contour of the outer face of the heel, as 8, against which the said projections abut when the deviceis in use, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. In Fig. 3 the guide shoulders or projections 9 are made into asingle curved flange, 9. In Fig. 4 the holder 5 is bent on itself transversely, in order to form the guide projection or shoulder 9. The guide projections 9 are located at the desired distance from the edge of the table, so that the prongs 10 of the heelplate 11 may enter the heel at the desired distance from the edge of the heel. This distance is of course arbitrary, and may be varied as desired in making the device.

In using the device the holder is placed on the heel at the place where the plate is to be set, with the guide projections 9 abutting against the outer face of the heel. The heelplate is then mounted on the holder with its prongs set in the guide-notches, and is held in this position until the prongs are driven aslight way into the heel,whereupon the holder is slid to one side by virtue of the open guide-eyes thereof, and then the plate is left set in position, to be subsequently driven home securely in place.

It is to be understood that the peculiar form of heelplate herein illustrated forms no part of this application, but is the subject-matter of another application of mine.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, as hereinbefore set forth, with the holder provided with an elevated table formed with guide notches or eyes for receiving the prongs of the heel-plate and holding the same in position, of the one or more depending guide projections gaged to abut against the outer face of the heel and to properlylocate the position of the plate, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

2. The combination,ashereinbefore set forth, with the holder 5, provided with the table 6,

formed with the guide-notches 7, of the guide cation of. the plate while being driven, as and projections 9, depending from the holder, subfor the purpose herein described. 10 stantially as and for the purpose herein de In witness whereof I have hereunto set my scribed. hand. 7

3. A- holder for heel-plates provided with RUSSELL H. LEWIS. supporting-guides for receiving the prongs of Witnesses: the heel-plate and holding the samein position, J OSEPH A. MILLER, Jr.

and having a guide device for gaging the 10- i M. F. BLIG'H. 

